Well, I decided to select one of the most controversial movies to come out w/in the past 10-years.....I honestly don't know if this will generate a lot of responses, but if it does..could become somewhat "heated"... Thanks again for Amazon.com for the following:
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Amazon.com
Larry Clark's controversial film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope is also an unblinking look at the dehumanizing rituals of growing up. But it really doesn't add up to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin busting, skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other people, who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are doing out there on the streets. --Tom Keogh --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.
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Personal Note: Larry Clark filmed this movie if as though if it was a documentary, despite that it doesn't focus on the consequences of the acts that the characters were committing throughout the movie. "Kids" is a really adult-oriented movie, so it's obviously not meant for everyone....It is really surreal and yet provocative at the same time... Even though it was filmed in 1995, it is still timely and forever will be.... Also, another wonderful thing about this movie was the soundtrack (mostly done by Lou Barlow and his bands Folk Implosion & Sebadoh)..... Here's a link to sample it:
http://cdzlimited.org/soundtracks/A_L/kids.html
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